vaunt

vaunt
    n 1: extravagant self-praise
    v 1: show off [syn: {boast}, {tout}, {swash}, {shoot a line},
         {brag}, {gas}, {blow}, {bluster}, {vaunt}, {gasconade}]
    

Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. [See {Avant}, {Advance}.]
   To put forward; to display. [Obs.] "Vaunted spear."
   --Spenser.
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         And what so else his person most may vaunt. --Spenser.
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Vaunt \Vaunt\ (v[aum]nt or v[add]nt; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
   {Vaunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vaunting}.] [F. vanter, LL.
   vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See {Vain}.]
   To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth,
   attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk
   ostentatiously; to brag.
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         Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what
         he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. --Gov.
                                                  of Tongue.
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Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t.
   To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with
   ostentation. In the latter sense, the term usually used is
   {flaunt}.
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         Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. --1 Cor.
                                                  xiii. 4.
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         My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. --Milton.
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Vaunt \Vaunt\, n.
   A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done;
   ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
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         The spirits beneath, whom I seduced
         With other promises and other vaunts.    --Milton.
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Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See {Avant},
   {Vanguard}.]
   The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
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81 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaunt":
      advertise, air, blazon, blazon forth, blow, bluster, boast,
      boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism,
      bragging, brandish, bravado, bravura, brilliancy,
      cock-a-doodle-doo, conceit, crow, dangle, daring, dash,
      demonstrate, demonstration, display, dramatics, draw the longbow,
      eclat, emblazon, etalage, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism,
      false front, fanfaronade, figure, flair, flash, flaunt, flaunting,
      flourish, gasconade, gasconism, heroics, histrionics, hold up,
      jactation, jactitation, manifest, manifestation, mouth, pageant,
      pageantry, parade, prate, puff, put forth, put forward,
      rodomontade, sham, show, show off, showing-off, side,
      speak for Buncombe, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport, staginess,
      swagger, theatrics, trumpet, trumpet forth, vanity, vapor,
      vauntery, vaunting, wave